You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:
What do you want to achieve?
As mentioned in the title, I want to change the name inside the array so I could access them using a string.
What is the issue?
I have no clue how to approach this, so I am asking to see if there is a way to do this.
What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
I have looked up how I can change a name of a key in a dictionary, but in terms of how to set a name for the key, I could not find a solution (or maybe I did not look deep enough).
-- What is printed:
{
[1] = {},
[2] = {}
}
-- What I want to print:
{
["buyStats"] = {},
["equipStats"] = {}
}
Pseudocode:
local mainSave = {}
local buyStats = {}
for in pair buyStats do
add number into buyStats
add buyStats to mainSave
local equipStats = {}
for in pair equipStats do
add number into equipStats
add equipStats to mainSave
save mainSave
Apologies, but I am struggling to understand what you want. In your code there are many syntax errors and I assume that is because you are trying to describe it, but I am unsure.
So basically I have a code that saves an array with multiple other arrays, the problem is I don’t know how I can get it to print out the way I have mentioned in the post, or in other words have those keys (1, 2, etc) to have a name in strings instead of numbers. I want it in strings so that I could access it using the key’s name when assigning it to their respectful folders
If you already have them ordered as 1 and 2, you could do something like this:
local gottenData = -- Data from the datastore
local newDictionary = {
["buyStats"] = {};
}
for i,v in pairs(gottenData[1]) do
table.insert(newDictionary["buyStats"], v)
end
If your table is nested (a table inside of a table), then consider looking into deep cloning it.